TiVo the Spy

[Randall Hofland]

And thus one of the reasons for the growing number of privacy options for
blocking personal information from leaving your home, but that does little
good with something like TiVo or Direct TV when they require a full time
telephone access to monitor their hardware. A good reason to strengthen the
nation's privacy laws to forbid the secret collection much less
transmission of personal information. And we could use some good open
source measures that allow the end user to protect themselves from all this
as well.

Kyle Plummer wrote:

> I haven't seen the Fox News report.  But, CNNfn covered the issues of
> privacy in regard to the agreement TiVo uses in a report today.  It is a
> little confusing regarding how you can, or can not have this info used.
> How is this applying to Linux?  Everyone should be award if, or how this
> information may be used.  However look at amazon.com, AOL, and yahoo.
> As more Internet Appliances come online the likelihood of someone
> looking over your cyber shoulder is real.
>
> Just my opinion...
>
> Kyle
>
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